my pad was done on 48000 as well, touch wood other then that so far so good been done 67000 now.
also have to agree on the paint work my friend hv a fd civic and even newer(08) is not as deep gloss as mine (both black) would it be jap paint(mine) n thai paint(his civic)?
as someone mention b4 the dash seems have some resonance problem but minor.
yesterday vac my cer found out the seatbelt is wearing the seat cover esp driver side near seat hinge. damn i like the seat pretty much dun wanna put any seat cover on.
my last car was corolla SX dead on 320000km and just regular service n not much been replace until 310000 many things start to kinda fail so change to this lovely GD3 i doubt this little jazz would hold up until this much k's